Bangor and Aroostook
Train 223 climbs Quakish Hill just
south of Millinocket with 8 locomotives and 70 cars for
Brownville Junction.
Train 223 led by rebuilt ex Amtrak
F40 number 451 crests the grade at Dyer Brook just south of
Oakfield on it's return trip to Brownville Junction.
A Millinocket bound freight
encounters two White-Tailed deer crossing the right of way on the
wye at Brownville.
A southbound Searsport Job cuts
through fresh snow with a string of tank cars destined for fuel
oil loading at the port.
An eastbound freight arrives at
Brownville Junction from Montreal with four GP38s on the head
end.
BAR number 21 one of five (20-24)
GP7u locomotives purchased from the Santa Fe in 1991 still wears
the late tri-color scheme in the summer of 1999. This late scheme
eliminates the use of silver on the trucks (now black) and on the
pilots (now gray).
Northern Vermont number 512 is an
ex Southern Pacific GP35 freshly repainted at the BAR's Northern
Maine Junction diesel shops.
Two Amtrak FL9s originally owned by the New Haven which have been
operating in freight service on the BAR during the summer of 1999
are being prepared at Northern Maine Junction to return to
Amtrak's Beech Grove, Illinois shops for rebuliding.
Two GP38s switch the upper yard known as "The Farm" at
Northern Maine Junction. The pond in the forground is just behind
the NMJ roundhouse.